Posts Tagged: Donald Trump
After Helsinki, US Abandons Its Legal Obligations in Syria
Among several noteworthy and interrelated Helsinki summit policy derelictions -- most obviously, Vladimir Putin’s still unpunished aggressions in Crimea -- US President Donald Trump chose to ignore America’s...
As Trump and Russia Align, Europe Should Be Worried
JNS.org - Two weeks ago, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with his Belarusian colleague Alexander Lukashenko, who is known as “Europe’s last dictator.” Lukashenko surprised his...
The Iranian-North Korean Nexus After Trump’s Nuclear Summit
The summit that took place in Singapore last month between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un likely had a significant impact...
Our View from Auschwitz: How Tragedies of the Past Become Lessons for the Future
JNS.org - “History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.” -- Erik Qualman Last month, we had the opportunity to delve deeper into the devastating and...
Echoing Other World Leaders, Assad Brazenly Lies on Syria Chemical Weapons Use
In an unprecedented television interview on May 30 on Russia Today, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made detailed comments about his army’s use of chemical weapons...
Lamed-Vav and the Danger of Donald
Whatever else Donald Trump might believe, the state of our American union is deeply intertwined with the state of our world. There is no getting...
US Foreign Policy Cannot Ignore Human Rights
US President Donald Trump traveled to Singapore to negotiate nuclear issues, not to discuss North Korean violations of basic human rights. Still, any such willful...
Jared Kushner Has It All Wrong on the Palestinians
JNS.org - We don’t yet know the details of the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan that presidential adviser Jared Kushner is preparing. But we do know how Kushner...
After Iran Deal Pull-Out, Iran Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine
The Trump administration’s nascent campaign to pressure Iran is underway. Economic sanctions have been reinstated and global companies are pulling out of the Islamic republic. Carmakers...
‘Soft Power’ in the US, Israel, and Around the Globe
The term “soft power” entered the lexicon in the 1990s, but its use has accelerated dramatically in recent years, reflecting the explosion of the digital age. Soft power...
Don’t Separate Families at the Border — but Don’t Expropriate the Holocaust Either
As an Orthodox rabbi, it is not for me to comment on US Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ invocation of the New Testament to justify separating children from...
Trump, Kim, and the ‘Good Citizen’
JNS.org - One of the many memorable scenes in The Lives of Others -- an exemplary German movie whose plot centers on the Stasi secret police...
The Torah — and Trump’s Embrace of a Dictator
This week we witnessed momentous and unprecedented scenes in Singapore -- as the president of the United States sat down with the leader of North...
Trumpism and the Value of Truth
From the day he announced his candidacy for president of the United States -- with his talk of Mexican rapists illegally crossing the border -- it has...
